China is playing for keeps, and space is, you know, sort of ground zero for that competition that we are in.
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
What Putin has done in Ukraine is inexcusable. It's a slaughter. It's, it's awful.
For the defense of the country, both defensive and offensive, space has become the next battleground. It's the high ground. And what you've seen is not only satellites that give us early warning of any attack on Earth, including a nuclear…
We're in a space race. And we want to get to the south pole of the moon where the resources are, where we think water is.
NASA's budget request of almost $26 billion is clearly designed to keep the core missions of the agency on track.
It provides opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, and it promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) throughout the Agency and with our partners.
I have been out there, and we are afraid that bridge is going to fall in the water.
NASA is the point of the spear on climate and climate change because all the measurements that are being made are done by instruments that we design, build, launch, and many of them we operate.
It is also true that every space mission that we have had, there have been delays.





